CaseLight2015

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Bright ball of light that spun in a clockwise direction then shot up into the clouds and was gone.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2015-02-04
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5-10 seconds
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
light-over-las-vegas-nv-2015-6afc63
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Las Vegas, NV logged 6 reports in the single month of February 2015.

In context

  • One of 619 documented reports from Las Vegas, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 111 sightings in 2015.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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